Hi Bill,
I'd be happy to work with you to help the documentation get a bit more
clear about this issue. Let's work off reflector to make it happen, OK?
Would you drop me a note and tell me exactly where you would like things
explicated a bit further?
Best,
Chase
http://w4ti.com
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com>
wrote:
> On 23/05/2014 19:36, Joe Taylor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> Hi Joe,
> >
> > I'll be traveling again and mostly out of email contact from tomorrow
> > through June 3. A couple of thoughts, before I leave:
> >
> > 1. Can we get a version of WSJT-X suitable for a beta release ready in
> > the reasonably near future? It doesn't need to be perfect. For
> > example, if there are still rig-control issues with a few specific rigs,
> > we can let that be known. There is so much good stuff in the current
> > version, it's too bad that most users still have r3673 or earlier.
> I am a little uneasy about this because there are major issues with rig
> control of Icom rigs via DX Labs Suite commander and the direct control
> of the FT-817/FT-857/FT-897 series is fundamentally flawed.
>
> For the former I am waiting on Dave AA6YQ to hopefully make the TCP/IP
> more managable but I feel that he has lost interest in favour of other
> more pressing user facing issues for the Suite. I am reluctant to push
> him on this as he has helped a lot already.
>
> For the Yaesu FT-8x7 series I am working through a complete rewrite of
> the Hamlib back end for them, it is going well but will take a bit
> longer to complete.
>
> I suppose a beta/release candidate would be OK but I am wary of being
> flooded with a whole series of complaints about the rig interface not
> working where it appeared to work before.
>
> As for making a release candidate, anyone who has NSIS installed and can
> build on Windows with CMake should be able to prepare an installer by
> using 'cmake --build <release-build-dir> --target package'.
>
> The documentation needs some love around the the settings dialog area
> and the new waterfall features. If anyone wants to help with the docs on
> WSJT-X I am happy to help by explaining the subtleties of the new
> settings dialog.
> >
> > 2. Chase asked about the possibility of merging the documentation for
> > WSPR and WSPR-X. I'm not fundamentally opposed; but on the other hand
> > WSPR-X is rather a step-child in some ways, ignored by most. It's not
> > clear that it has much of a near-term future, as the higher priorities
> > all seem to be elsewhere.
> >
> > I do think, however, that we should re-do the WSPR documentation in the
> > new, asciidoc-based way.
> >
> > -- 73, Joe, K1JT
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
>
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